Insular is an adjective used to describe:
* An
island
* Someone who is isolated and
parochial
Insular may also refer to:
Sub-national territories or regions
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Insular Chile
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Insular region of Colombia
The insular region of Colombia includes the oceanic islands outside the continental territory. In the Caribbean this includes the San Andrés and Providencia islands near Central America and the many coastal islands along mainland Colombia. I ...
* Insular Ecuador, administratively known as
Galápagos Province
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Insular Region (Equatorial Guinea)
The Insular Region of Equatorial Guinea ( es, Región Insular de Guinea Ecuatorial, french: Région insulaire de Guinée équatoriale, pt, Região Insular da Guiné Equatorial) comprises the former Spanish territory of Fernando Po, together wit ...
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Insular Italy
* Insular Portugal, comprises the
Madeira and Azores Autonomous Regions
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Insular Southeast Asia
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Insular areas of the United States
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Insular Cases, a series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions in 1901, about the status of U.S. territories acquired in the Spanish–American War
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Bureau of Insular Affairs, a unit of the U.S. government's War Department which administered certain insular areas from 1902 to 1939
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Office of Insular Affairs, a unit of the U.S. Department of the Interior that oversees federal administration of several insular areas (and the successor to the Bureau of Insular Affairs).
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Insular Government of the Philippine Islands
The Insular Government of the Philippine IslandsThis form of the name appeared in the titles of U.S. Supreme Court cases, but was otherwise rarely used. See Costas v. Insular Government of the Philippine Islands, 221 U.S. 623, 1911. The Admini ...
, the U.S. territorial government that was established in 1901 and was dissolved in 1935
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Insular Region, Venezuela
The Insular Region (''Región Insular'') is one of the eight natural regions of Venezuela and one of the 10 Administrative regions of Venezuela, administrative regions in which Venezuela was divided for its development plans; it comprises all of t ...
Periods of political isolation
* Berlin, while isolated by the
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall (german: Berliner Mauer, ) was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and East Germany (GDR). Construction of the Berlin Wall was commenced by the government ...
, from 1961 to 1989
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
, after 1422 until the 19th century
* Japan, during most of the Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1868), when the
Seclusion laws were in place
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South Africa during apartheid, between 1948 and 1993
Other uses
* ''Insular'' (''Insulares''), the term used for
criollos in the former Spanish East Indies (the Philippines, the Mariana Islands, the Caroline Islands)
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Insular art
Insular art, also known as Hiberno-Saxon art, was produced in the post-Roman era of Great Britain and Ireland. The term derives from ''insula'', the Latin term for "island"; in this period Britain and Ireland shared a largely common style dif ...
, the style of art produced in the post-Roman history of the British Isles
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Insular Celts
The Insular Celts were speakers of the Insular Celtic languages in the British Isles and Brittany. The term is mostly used for the Celtic peoples of the isles up until the early Middle Ages, covering the British–Irish Iron Age, Roman Britain ...
, the Iron Age inhabitants of the British Isles
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Insular Celtic languages, the group of languages spoken by those people
* Insular Christianity, more commonly known as
Celtic Christianity
Celtic Christianity ( kw, Kristoneth; cy, Cristnogaeth; gd, Crìosdaidheachd; gv, Credjue Creestee/Creestiaght; ga, Críostaíocht/Críostúlacht; br, Kristeniezh; gl, Cristianismo celta) is a form of Christianity that was common, or held ...
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insular cortex, a part of the cerebral cortex
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Insular dwarfism, a form of phyletic dwarfism
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Insular script, a medieval script system originally used in Ireland
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Insular Life
The Insular Life Assurance Company, Ltd. (commonly known by its trade name, Insular Life, and shortened as InLife) is a mutual life insurance company in the Philippines. Established on November 25, 1910 in Manila, it is the first Filipino life in ...
, a mutual life insurance company in the Philippines
See also
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Maritime (disambiguation)
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